The CSU faculty are preparing to hold a strike from April 13-15 and 18-19, 2016, at all 23 CSU campuses to fight for salary increases for all faculty members in an effort to improve quality public higher education in California. All the members of the CFA statewide Retired Faculty Committee have pledged to support this strike, and we are asking our retired colleagues to join us.

At Cal State U Trustees Meeting, Faculty Blame Chancellor, Call for Board to Stop Allowing Chancellor to Duck Accountability for Current Impasse

March 8, 2016

Long Beach, CA — Leaders and members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) spoke out at the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees’ meeting today, the last Trustees meeting before CSU faculty will go on strike, assuming no contract agreement is reached April 13 when the strike is to begin. The faculty who spoke out at the Board meeting blasted Chancellor White for showing no leadership in ending the contract negotiations that have been going on since 2014.

MARCH 2016—Some 40 faculty and student supporters warmed up for the strike with a demonstration and “Dismal Carnival” at CSU East Bay on Monday before they joined many more CFA members at a forum with Chancellor Timothy White that turned testy.

Following the announcement last week of strike dates—April 13-15 and April 18-19,—faculty on CSU campuses began to hold “Strike Schools” and meetings to prepare, just in case a settlement is not reached.

CFA Chapter Presidents have been taking the Fight for Five to local and student media in recent weeks as a way to help educate the community about the need for CSU management to invest in faculty salaries.

As most of you know by now, we are currently waiting for the completion of fact-finding, the last phase in the bargaining process required by statute. Should the fact-finding process not yield a fair settlement, we will have the legal right to call a strike.

In preparing for that possibility, we want to ensure that faculty members understand the issues in this dispute as well as our rights and responsibilities under state labor law.

Three legislators who have led efforts to improve the California State University system and protect quality higher education statewide were honored by CFA during an open house at union headquarters on Monday, January 25.